Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ بْنُ عُتْبَةَ عَنْ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يُزَوِّجَ شَيْئًا مِنْ بَنَاتِهِ جَلَسَ إِلَى خِدْرِهَا فَقَالَ إِنَّ فُلَانًا يَذْكُرُ فُلَانَةً يُسَمِّيهَا وَيُسَمِّي الرَّجُلَ الَّذِي يَذْكُرُهَا فَإِنْ هِيَ سَكَتَتْ زَوَّجَهَا وَإِنْ كَرِهَتْ نَقَرَتْ السِّتْرَ فَإِذَا نَقَرَتْهُ لَمْ يُزَوِّجْهَا.
English Translation
Husayn ibn Muhammad told us: Ayyub ibn Utbah told us, from Yahya, from Abu Salama, from A'isha, who said: Whenever the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, wanted to marry off one of his daughters, he would sit by her curtained chamber and say: "So-and-so mentions so-and-so" — naming her and naming the man who mentioned her — "if she remains silent, he marries her off, and if she dislikes it, she taps the curtain, and if she taps it, he does not marry her off."